In my first episode of the Songs of My Life , I talked about Hymn by Ultravox , which became a Song of My Life some ten years later than it has been published. For Don’t Stop Believin’ , this time-span is even larger – the song really deeply touched me the first time in the early 2010’s – about thirty years after Journey originally published this classic masterpiece – which, I feel, is still very popular especially in the United States .
Don’t Stop Believin’: The Story of The Song
The roots of Journey date back to 1973, when the band has been founded in San Francisco . Two of the founding members, Neal Schon (guitar, backing vocals) and Ross Valory (bass, backing vocals) are still members of the band – Valory, however, left the band for a brief period in the 1980’s, before the band broke up. There was a short reunion in 1991, and since 1995, the band is touring again.
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At the time of writing and releasing Don’t Stop Believin’ on the album Escape and as a single, Schon and Valory were joined by legendary Steve Perry (vocals), Steve Smith (drums / percussion) and Jonathan Cain (keyboard, background vocals). Cain was the main input to writing this song – his father used to tell him Don’t stop believing or you’re done, dude , when he struggled with the musician’s life living on Los Angeles Sunset Boulevard during this time. The reference to South Detroit is just random due to melodic reasons. In fact, there is no place like South Detroit – geographically, this would refer to Windsor, Ontario, Canada , which is located opposite of Detroit River.
At the time of release, it has not been an overwhelming chart success. Don’t Stop Believin’ went Top 10 in Canada and in the US Mainstream Rock. However, several incidences pushed the song back to the charts again and again. One of the reasons was the Rock of Ages musical, which started on Broadway in 2009 (which is “my” Don’t Stop Believin’ story, see below), but also an X-Factor performance and the version of the Glee musical TV show cast boosted the sales significantly after the original release. For example, the song went up to the sixth spot in the UK in 2010 and made to the Top 25 in the annual charts. In Sweden , the song made it to the Top 100 in 2015, 2017 and 2018. It sold one million physical copies in the US, but had as many sale as a ringtone and seven million digital sales / downloads. Thus, it is the most downloaded song in the US, which has not been recorded in the 21st century.
And then there was Glee …
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The Glee cast version released in 2010 went platinum in the US, the UK and Australia . In addition, it hit the Top 10 in Ireland , Japan (Contemporary Airplay), Portugal (digital) and Scotland. The song was the the closing song of the very first episode of the very successful TV show. It’s a very different, but also a really lovely version of the song.
Don’t Stop Believin’: My Story of The Song
As said in the introduction, my story of Don’t Stop Believin’ starts in 2011 or early 2012 (I cannot fully reconcile that any more): I had a trip to London on my own and did what I just loved to do: go to one of these ticket resellers and look for some cheap seats for the evening. I decided to go for a ticket of Rock of Ages – the first time I ever saw that show. You will find several postings about it on Flyctory.com: first of all, a posting about the story and the previous UK Tour , but also pictures from an amateur performance near Cologne and visiting the the Hollywood Bourbon Room – the place where the musical’s story is mainly takes place (including a performance, of course).
32 Shows… and many more to come
When I entered Shaftesbury Theatre in London, I had seen the Queen musical We will rock you about ten or eleven times already (now I am at 13) and would have never imagined I could ever sit down for a show that often again. To make the story short: at the time of writing, I saw Rock of Ages 32 times in four countries – and if the pandemic is allowing shows from May again, there will be some 15 more performances in 2021. The story of the musical plays in the same setting as Jonathan Cain was originally, when his father told him not to stop believing: the early 1980’s era of rock. The musical is a love story jukebox musical about fighting for rock music – finally, the Bourbon Room is saved – and after the main characters Drew and Cherrie had to work as boy band singer and striptease dancer in the meantime, also find back love.
The song is the closing song after a set of big 1970’s to 1990’s hits like The Final Countdown (Europe), I Wanna Rock (Twisted Sister) or I Want to Know What Love Is (Foreigner). It is introducing with the magical words, told by Lonnie
So, that’s how our story wraps up!
As for Drew and Sherrie,
well, it looks like they found love in place of fame!
Living in Glendale now, I believe.
They are the perfect illustration, that on the strip,
sometimes the dreams you come in with,
may not be the dreams you’re leaving with!
But hey, they still rock!
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I loved the music from the very beginning. One reason was the dirty humor and the quite high level of interaction with the audience, which was especially part of the UK performances. Naturally, there are not too many available live recordings of musicals – but the video above is the original cast (at a musical festival, not an original stage recording) of the first UK performances. The main characters are Oliver Tompsett, Amy Pemberton, Simon Lipkin and Shayne Ward – but if you have a close look, you also see Twinnie Lee Moore on stage, who is nowadays a Featured Artist of Flyctory.com, doing country music. Rock of Ages was the first time I saw her live on stage – not too surprising that I still love that lady today 🙂
My love for the musical got even more intense with the 10th Anniversary UK tour in 2018 and 2019. Due to the frequent number of shows I saw, I got in quite close and friendship contact to some of the tour cast members, who I am still in contact with and also partially met in/after other shows after the tour closed in Leeds on 3rd August 2019.
This song connected me to wonderful people
Thus, whenever I listen to Don’t stop believin’ , I think of the wonderful Luke Walsh (Drew), Andrew Carthy (Hertz), Joshua Dever, Adam Strong (Major) and especially Kevin Clifton (Stacee Jaxx), Lucas Rush (Lonnie) and the very dear Rhiannon Chesterman (Regina). There are also a lot of RoAdies / musical fans I met by the show over time again and again, including the legendary Adrian, who is having quite a triple-digit number of visits of the show – thankful to be connected to these lovely people by that musical and that song – and hope to see some of them back again on 6th May 2021, when the musical is scheduled to be played again at Kings Theatre, Portsmouth.
Don’t Stop Believin’: Spotify / Lyrics
Below is a Spotify link to the (Original Broadway) musical version of Don’t stop Believin’ . The lyrics of the Journey original can be found for example here .
Songs Of My Life Playlist
I created a playlist with all the Songs Of My Life songs so far. It will be updated with very new episode:
Title picture: Rock of Ages UK Tour 2019 promotion material
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At first sight, this is rather a blog posting for people outside Germany. At the time of reading, German residents ...
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From Franconia via Germany... to the world? At least in their home country, Hämatom (yes, this means hematoma) became a ...
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Though a lot of Song which shaped me have been recorded in the 1980's and 1990's, I want to move ...
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Croatian folk-rock with a metal touch? Sounds quite interesting, doesn't it? And, indeed, when I scanned one of the music ...
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Mr. Big meets Iron Maiden - or at least one member each of their former lineups. On 26th March 2021, ...
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A band who wants to keep rock'n'roll alive - these kind of artists are always very welcome on Flyctory.com. When ...
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It has been quite amazing for me to read that The Bitter Truth is only the fifth studio album by the ...
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This release is for the guitar lovers. As Everything Unfolds is a band from Southern England, which has developed very ...
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As frequent readers of Flyctory.com might now, I do keep a certain mental distance to press releases and press kits ...
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With Flyctory.com growing on the musical side, I have the opportunity to have access to more and more interesting releases ...
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After ten years of band history, The Blue Stories release their second album on 19th March 2021. After the blues ...
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Brazilian music is much more than samba. The rock and metal scene has quite some bands which made it big ...
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Selig is one of the most famous German rock bands. They started publlishing music in 1993. On 12th March 2021, ...
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Alphaville, Ultravox and Mike & The Mechanics on one album? Okay, I have to give in that neither of the ...
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A young female British rock artist, born in the 1990's, who states that she loves 1980's rock? Feels like a ...
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Ritchie Blackmore and Candice Night - the two masterminds behind the US folk-rock band Blackmore's Night, are indeed big names ...
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Some new punk rock on Flyctory.com - and this time it is even a debut album: due to my connections ...
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Another interesting artist on Flyctory.com: Israel Nash is doing rock with an Americana touch. He grew his fanbase over the ...
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Some new tunes by A Day To Remember: the US rockers released You're Welcome, their latest album, on 5th March ...
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Interesting music from Australia: one of the new releases as of 5th March 2021 I ran into is The Night, the ...
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Some things take some time to get really good. If you think about Scotland and about something already having a ...
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Quite some interesting rock music to be released on 26th February 2021. I originally wanted to start my reviews of ...
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Album #18 by Bonnie Tyler. I was really looking forward to hear new stuff by the Welsh characteristic rock voice, ...
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Nino de Angelo is one of my favorite German artists. I will definitely tell you about a very special concert ...
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Alice Cooper is truly a rock music legend. On 26th February 2021, he released his 21st album Detroit Stories. I have ...
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Bones Owens already worked with really big names of the business and has released two EPs so far. Nonetheless, seven ...
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I love to scan music and run into interesting artist. Ally Venable definitely fits into this category. At the age ...
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Undoubtedly, Munich Olympic Tower is one of the iconic buildings of the Bavarian city. Even though the tower is located ...
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When I ran into the debut album by Ben Rice, Future Pretend, I initially thought he is a blues musician ...
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Alice Cooper, Thin Lizzy, Black Star Riders - Damon Johnson has indeed worked with some of the really big names ...
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Gronau in the Münsterland region in Western Germany calls itself the "Music City". The some 50,000 inhabitant town is definitely not the ...
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While so far the only German dialect I feature on Flyctory.com is Kölsch, the lovely way to speak in my ...
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If you are not a living music lexicon, most of you might not associate too much with the band Edie ...
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I enjoy the collaboration with promotion agencies, which feed Flyctory.com with new music. The key reason for that is that ...
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Jack McBannon does a quite interesting and versatile fusion of different Americana music styles. Being on stage for twenty years ...
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12th February 2021 feels a bit like the Norwegian rock day on Flyctory.com. A few days after I reviewed the ...
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The Tobacco Rd Band are known for their powerful country rock sound and inspiring love songs. On 12th February 2021, ...
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With Flyctoy.com, I already ran into music from a couple of Norwegian artists. I recently reviewed the new album by ...
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Apart from global mainstream sounds, there are some genres, which have a quite local popularity. The German Schlager is one ...
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In my Songs Of My Life section, I try to introduce you with very different songs, which influenced me during my ...
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I enjoy to present German acts as part of my media reviews - and even more if they are successful ...
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During the last months, I got more and more in Australian country music as well. When I scanned the new ...
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Happy Birthday, Michael Schenker - some three weeks after the German rock legend turned 65 years, he is back with ...
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Gehst Du mit mir unter - "Are you drowning with me" is the album title of a new German music project ...
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The Dead Daisies are a very interesting band, which has been founded in the Southern Hemisphere in Australia and New ...
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After I interrupted my "regular" series of Songs of My Life for the Christmas edition with Tiny Tim, the first posting ...
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292 Media Review postings - looking into new music (and a few other) releases was definitely some sort of core ...
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2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
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Steve Earle is indeed a productive musical artist: just some eight months after his amazing concept album Ghosts of West Virginia, ...
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With a 800m GBP estimated net worth, Paul McCartney is one of the very big names of the music business ...
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If Everything Happens For A Reason.... Then Nothing Really Matters At All - this is definitely the longest album title ...
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Miley Cyrus is simply a music superstar and talented in multiple genres. Thus, new Miley Cyrus albums are always exciting ...
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Clutch are an East Coast rock band, who steadily grew since their band founding in 1991. With the Weathermaker Vault Series ...
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The Lovell sisters and their band Larkin Poe have been become a well reputed name in the US music business ...
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Alternative rock made in Hamburg - the German band Tusq is already active for eleven years. Time to release some ...
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Indie rock made in British Columbia - Yukon Blonde are part of the Canadian music scene for 15 years already ...
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Dirk Busch's 1980's song Du bist keine Mona List would be a perfect candidate for my new Songs of my Life category ...
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Australian weekend on Flyctory.com: after I already reviewed the albums by Kylie Minogue and Caitlyn Shadbolt, the third release from ...
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What would Per Gessle be without Marie Fredriksson, who joined for the Swedish rock music export Roxette for so many ...
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Iceland - one of the most painful experiences this year for me. I already had booked a trip to the ...
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There are not too many occasions in the recent past that German-speaking artists gained popularity by performing country music. Undoubtedly, ...
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Radio, Radio - I have a very special relation to this Elvis Costello classic: whenever something goes completely wrong at a ...
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Joe Bonamassa meets Abbey Road studios? This definitely sounds like an interesting co-production of two legendary parts of music history! ...
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It's been quite a short-term: just three days before the release of their fifth studio album Tabasco and Sweet Tea, ...
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Low Cut Connie became quite a darling of the critics during the last decade. Their re-intertpretation of Rock'n'Roll attracted quite ...
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Even despite their first two albums had rather average success, The Struts gained a lot of reputation in Great Britain ...
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It has been a bit tricky to search for Patty Smyth's 2020 album It's about time. Smyth has been a music ...
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From street music to the tops of the German charts - Saltatio Mortis have taken the very tough route to ...
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I am a huge critics of the fact that music, especially radio airplay, becomes more and more streamlined. The more ...
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If one of your songs is streamed more than three million times on Spotify (even though driven by an excellent ...
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If you already released fourteen albums before and are about to do the fifteenth one, you might run out of ...
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All five albums of the 2010's of the US folk rock band Dawes made it to the US overall album ...
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A band which has been named based on their nudist colony background feels to be a promising basis for a ...
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One of Us - what an amazing song! It is hard to believe that you are not too wrong to call ...
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Delta Spirit do Indie Rock with an Americana touch. Six years after their last album, they are releasing their fifth ...
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Due to the current situation, The Killers had to wait some extra months to present their complete 2020 album: Imploding The Mirage, ...
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Snow Patrol are back in the (virtual) record stores. The Scottish-Northern Irish band recorded a couple of songs during the ...
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When you think about Alanis Morissette, you think about Ironic. However, the Canadian artist is definitely not a one-hit wonder ...
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The Pretenders - what a big name in the music business. Undoubtedly, the band around Chrissie Hynde was big in ...
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Borlänge - I will always combine that city with the 1993 German Tennis Davis Cup semifinal defeat against Sweden. Michael ...
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Whenever big names of the music business release new music, there are two scenarios: they either still do great music ...
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While scanning the album releases as of 10th July 2020, I ran into Lighter by Donna Missal. I have to admit ...
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Haim is a band which became popular in the early 2010 years. Already with their first publications, the three Californian ...
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Neil Young - one of the very big names in music business. Whenever Young is releasing new music or a ...
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Beyond The Black got some additional focus in Germany when their lead singer Jennifer Haben joined the popular TV format Sing ...
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Not just due to being the only popular music artist who ever received the Nobel Prize in Literature, Bob Dylan ...
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Steve Earle is definitely one of the big names in music in general. The country and folk artist had very ...
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If you are running out of albums to be reviewed as so many releases are postponed due to Covid-19, this ...
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While my Spotlight Interview so far have been concentrated in the country music scene, I was very happy to run ...
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Though Liv Austen is originally from Norway, she is an established artist of the British country music scene. On 10th ...
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It is really tough to select the right achievement to describe Joe Satriani's career in one fact. Over ten million ...
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Not just in regards of the third day of my time in California, but also for the whole trip following ...
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Heinz Rudolf Kunze is one of the biggest songwriters and rock musicians in Germany. Already in the 1980s, he had ...
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It was 1989 when Richard Marx was Right Here Waiting For You and gave a musical promise of love which touched ...
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What does a musician give himself best as a birthday present? Richie Kotzen went for a new album on 3rd ...
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10th January 2020 had a couple of interesting album releases. DeWolff from the Netherlands are playing an interesting mix of ...
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Flyctory.com about Twinnie
Here are all postings related to the UK country artist Twinnie :
2020 is about to come to an end - and the last three posting of the years re about to ...
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I typically aimed to publish my Country Music Picks every six to eight weeks roughly - but after my last edition ...
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Starting Flyctory.com as a travel and sports blog some 30 months ago, I wouldn't have imagined at its beginning how ...
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It's already about a month since my last Country Music Picks in May 2020. Covid-19 has been the dominating topic ...
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Even though Covid-19 is taking quite much of our time, we should really enjoy the good things - and at ...
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Twinnie's debut album Hollywood Gypsy, which has been released on 17th April 2020, was some sort of highlight of the day ...
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My Country Music Playlists on Amazon Music and Spotify are one of the most popular elements of the Flyctory.com music ...
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The Corona crisis keeps me buzy - and thus, it again took me quite a while to have a new ...
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After the the first side stage acts on Day 1 of the C2C Country To Country 2020 in Berlin, Day ...
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C2C Country To Country in Berlin 2020 - time to start the second edition of the festival on 6th March ...
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A lot has happened since the Country 2 Country 2020 headliners for all five venues have been published in October 2019 ...
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It's been quite a while since my latest country music picks - especially as the last issue was just concentrating ...
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2019 has come to an end - and music has been one of the key topics of Flyctory.com in 2019 ...
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December - Christmas time! Especially after I had so many postings about Christmas markets in here, I felt to add ...
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After Sarah Darling's amazing performance on Day 1, Saturday evening had a massive Ballroom line-up, featuring Twinnie, The Adelaides, Honey ...
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I try to improve Flyctory.com steadily and enlarge your visitor's experience. I felt that there is so much music on ...
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For this 21st July 2019 edition of my Country Music Picks, I already had a couple of songs on my ...
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Getting more and more into country music, I more and more love songwriters rounds. Several singers or songwriters are on ...
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On Friday, 10th May 2019, the Arts Club in Liverpool hosted the 2019 stage of the CMT Next Women of ...
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The beginning of March 2019 was a country music powerhouse to me. The Country 2 Country (C2C) debut in Berlin, ...
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After my 2018 debut at the London Country 2 Country and the first-time German event in Berlin the weekend before, ...
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How to spent the time best between Country 2 Country 2019 in Berlin and Amsterdam and the "main events" in ...
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I visited Europe's biggest country music festival, Country 2 Country (C2C), for the first time in 2018 in London. I immediately ...
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